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The backlash following the brief Olympic bout between Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Italy’s Angela Carini continues.
Khelif, who’s engulfed in a gender controversy at the 2024 Paris Games, was declared the winner in Thursday’s welterweight fight after Carini surrendered just 46 seconds into the match after being struck multiple times in the face.
Not long after, Riley Gaines — a 12-time All-American and former collegiate swimmer at Kentucky who describes herself as a “leader defending women’s single-sex spaces” — posted on X, “Men don’t belong in women’s sports #IStandWithAngelaCarini.”
Elon Musk then agreed with her in a post on his X platform.
“Absolutely,” Musk wrote in a re-post of Gaines’ initial message.
Absolutely https://t.co/twccUEOW9e
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2024
Carini, 25, said she had “enough” after taking multiple punches to the face during the women’s 66kg preliminaries match Thursday at the North Paris Arena.
“This is unjust,” the two-time Olympian yelled while in her corner…
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